Bowled over
The latest Journal of Books and Wenches is out, and the below-the-fold front-page headline is “SLIS LAUNCHES BLOG—World Ends.”
Uh-oh, I thought, grinning. I’m in trouble.
And sure enough… I reproduce for the general benefit of CavLec fans and detractors everywhere the quote manufactured by the inimitable Malachi Bowles:
“Drat and double-drat, this annoys me no little,” she gesturingly noted. [ Obviously Malachi's been to a talk or a workshop of mine. I do gesture a lot. ] “I’ll be blunt: this is really quite excruciatingly bad. And it’s not as if such an outcome couldn’t have been forecast—in point of fact, I recall mentioning myself that there was no small chance of things blowing up. Even started a pool about it, if I’m not mistaken. Which, if I might allow myself a brief moment of immodesty, I won. Not that anything really blew up in the most literal sense, mind you—sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare, after all—but I rather think that this is just as good. And there is a bright side; there’s always a bright side, of course. The OPAC in the sixth circle is in utterly dreadful shape—if I could somehow finagle the redesign gig, methinks it would be one devil of a career-booster, if you’ll pardon the pun. Do they have the Fenster award down here?”
I’m truly sorry Malachi Bowles probably didn’t see me busting a gut reading this in the SLIS commons. My hat’s off to the piratical Malachi—that’s me, all right, hoist a considerable distance by my own petard. Brilliantly done!